Diversity Management, News and Updates
Pennsylvania State Rep. Jim Struzzi, R-Indiana, is trying to stir some momentum behind a bill, known as Cody’s Law, that, if it becomes law, would charge any individual who afflicts bodily harm to a person with a physical or intellectual disability with a second-degree felony. Currently in Pennsylvania, in order…
The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus is pushing for a hate crime bill in the state after a white female teenager was arrested last week for planning to kill Black churchgoers with knives and other sharp objects. The caucus, made up of 65 state representatives and Senate members, released a statement…
A white female teenager has been arrested in Gainesville, Ga., after her high school peers told administrators on Friday about her notebook filled with plans to kill Black churchgoers at the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, according to police. The 16-year-old girl was charged with criminal attempt to commit murder…
Two New Jersey 17-year-old boys have been arrested after reportedly calling a group of Black middle school girls the N-word and urinating on them at a Lawrence High School football game Oct. 18. Police say the bias incident — the way hate crimes are referred to in New Jersey law…
Bee Love Slater, a black, transgender 23-year-old from South Florida was found burned to death on September 4. In the early morning hours, Hendry County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the scene to see flames overtaking a PT Cruiser parked in the grass in a rural Florida neighborhood in Harlem. Slater…
In Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, Sheriff Leon Lott is calling for the state to enact a hate crime law after his department was not able to charge a 16-year-old for four days after he made racially charged death threats. The teenager was eventually charged four days after making two…
The #JusticeForElijah hashtag trended on Twitter this week after 17-year-old Elijah Al-Amin was fatally stabbed by 27-year-old Michael Paul Adams for listening to rap music Adams found “threatening.” Al-Amin was at a gas station Thursday morning when Adams approached the teen from behind and stabbed him with a pocket knife….
The intersection in Kansas City, Missouri is now a place filled with tragedy. Brooklyn Lindsey, a 32-year-old Black transgender woman that was beloved by her community, was found dead on a porch by Kansas City Police on Tuesday, according to CNN. She had been shot multiple times and her death…
Alexia Washington went with one of her friends to a Mississippi drive-thru restaurant called Who Dat’s last Friday. But Washington had a feeling something was wrong after they were given their food. She decided to look at her receipt. “Something told me to look at my receipt,” Washington said, according to…
At least 12 motorcyclists purposefully left dark skid marks on a brand new $30,000 rainbow crosswalk in an Albuquerque, New Mexico community. But residents and politicians are not having it. The crosswalk was just revealed on Monday, in time for Gay Pride Month, and it was three times the cost…